I wasn't planning to mention an Australian cricketer for the next few months if I could help it, but I was reading Ian's post on The Baggy Green about Phil Hughes and it suddenly got me thinking - "Where the hell was this guy for the ODI series?!"
In all honesty, with Ponting, Clarke and Mike Hussey looking dead on their feet I would have thought that giving Hughes a run with the ODI squad would have been good for him - even if you were planning to mould him as a Test batter.
Apparently Hughes has been cleaning up on the local scene scoring a few runs and has now taken a six-week stint with Middlesex .... errrrr ok.
County Cricket
A few years back it was regarded as beneficial for cricketers to move over to the UK for the English season and get a couple of seasons and a few pound in their pockets.
These days, I'm not totally sure what the point of county cricket is - there is so much international cricket on the go, that the real pros don't really need to go and play a bit of village cricket to get some experience.
The standard of county cricket appears to have deteriorated faster than the standard of English cricket (when one strips out the South African contribution to the team).
Dunno - anyone else think that county cricket isn't all that big a deal?
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I absolutely think they missed Hughes! Michael Clarke was wasted at Number 2. County Cricket is probably good to get some practice when you have a dip in form; but when you've just carted the SA bowlers all over the pitch, you should be in the National team!
Exactly! Poor Ponting looked absolutely finished - would have been a great time to give Hughes a run....
But hell we're just SA supporters so what do we know?! ;-)
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